Local Margot Stern Strom, pioneering Holocaust educator from Massachusetts, dies at 81 As a Brookline schoolteacher in the 1970s, Strom designed a curriculum that sought to help students find parallels between the past and the moral questions of their time. Margot Stern Strom was a founder of the nonprofit educational organization Facing History and Ourselves. Carol Palmer via The New York Times Margot Stern Strom, a schoolteacher who became one of the first American educators to design a formal curriculum for the study of the Holocaust, helping her students in the 1970s – and then classrooms across the United States...